Large-scale inventory of fire stations

The project concerns a large-scale inventory of fire stations in Gävleborg and Värmland counties with a newly developed method. The project is a continuation of the two projects conducted in 2012 and 2013. The 2012 project included the development of a new method for inventorying fire stations and field testing of the method in three counties. It also included procedures for preliminary valuation of the objects, based on architectural, building and cultural history factors and assessments. A continuation project is being carried out in 2013 to refine the methodology and data management for large-scale inventories with testing in another three counties. This includes the introduction of fully digitalized information management from field collection to final documents. The project in 2014 concerns large-scale inventories in Gävleborg and Värmland counties with the new method. The aim is to ensure that the method results in high quality inventories under production conditions. The tools in the field will be completely digital: mobile phones and tablets with the possibility of positioning with GPS, automatic data transfer and synchronization and security storage via cloud services. The processing of data and the production of inventory reports should also be done with easy-to-use digital tools. The entire chain of tools and computer programs must be independent of suppliers and operating systems, and must be easy to use for inventors.